FOWLER, Charles. b. Collumpton 17 May 1792; apprentice to a builder at Exeter; erected court of bankruptcy, Basinghall st. London; gained first premium in a design for London bridge 1822; rebuilt Covent Garden market 1829–30; built Hungerford market opened July 1833; restored Powderham castle, Devon; built churches at Charmouth, Buckley and Honiton and Devon county lunatic asylum at Exminster 1845. d. Great Marlow 26 Sep. 1867. Pycroft’s Art in Devon (1883) p. 45.
FOWLER, Frank. Lecturer in Willis’ rooms, London; engaged on a London daily paper; lecturer in Sydney 1855; started the Month, first respectable magazine in Sydney, July 1857 last issue Dec. 1858; contested Sydney for legislative assembly receiving 2000 votes; edited a London newspaper; founded The Library Co. London 1860, sec. of it to death; author of Southern lights and shadows 1859 and other books. d. Oakley cottage, Hammersmith 22 Aug. 1863 aged 30. Frank Fowler’s Last Gleanings (1864) pp. vii-xvii.
FOWLER, George. Formerly of Collumpton; author of Three years in Russia 2 vols. 1841; Lives of the sovereigns of Russia 1858; Turkey, a history of the Ottoman empire 1854; History of the war between Turkey and Russia 1855; Mary Markland the cottager’s daughter, 2 ed. 1861. d. Victoria terrace, Bayswater, London 20 April 1858.
FOWLER, John. b. Melksham, Wiltshire 11 July 1826; entered works of Gilke, Wilson & Co. at Middlesbrough 1847; drained Hainault Forest, Essex by use of his patent drainage plough about 1851; invented with Jeremiah Head a steam plough which gained prize of £500 at Chester show of Royal Agricultural Society 1858; invented double engine tackle 1860; established with Kitson and Hewitson, manufacturing works at Hunslet, Leeds 1860. d. Ackworth, Yorkshire 4 Dec. 1864. Trans. of Soc. of Engineers for 1868 pp. 299–318; Practical Mag. (1875) 257–62, portrait.
FOWLER, Sir John Dickenson. Solicitor, High Bailiff of Burton upon Trent 1818; knighted by Prince Regent at Beaudesert 8 Nov. 1818 but never gazetted. d. Burton 5 Feb. 1839 aged 70 but name remained in Knightages to 1864.
FOWLER, Lydia. b. Nantucket, Massachusetts 1823; a graduate of Syracuse medical college; the first female professor of obstetrics in America; lived in London 1863 to death; author of Familiar lessons on phrenology and physiology 1847; Familiar lessons on astronomy 1848; The pet of the household and how to save it 1865; Heart melodies, poems 1870 and 14 other books. (m. Lorenzo Niles Fowler of London, phrenologist). d. 62 St. Augustine’s road, Camden sq. London 26 Jany. 1879.
FOWLER, Richard. b. London 28 Nov. 1765; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1793; L.C.P. London 1796; practised at Salisbury from 1796; phys. to Salisbury infirmary 1796–1841; F.R.S. 1 April 1802; purchased and endowed ground for Salisbury and South Wiltshire museum to which he gave a large part of his books and collections 1862; author of Some Observations on the mental state of the blind and deaf and dumb, Salisbury 1843, 2 ed. 1860; An attempt to detect the physiological process by which thinking is effected, Salisbury 1849, 2 ed. 1852. d. Milford near Salisbury 13 April 1863 having attained a greater age than had any other member of the Royal Coll. of Phys. from its foundation. Proc. of Royal Soc. xiii, pp. iii-v (1864); Munk’s Roll, 2 ed. vol. ii, p. 447.
FOX, Caroline (2 dau. of Robert Were Fox 1789–1877). b. Falmouth 24 May 1819; kept a journal from 1835 to 1871 which has rendered her celebrated; friend of John Sterling, John Stuart Mill and other eminent men. d. Penjerrick near Falmouth 12 Jany. 1871. Memories of old friends, extracts from journals of Caroline Fox 1835 to 1871, ed. by H. N. Pym 1881, portrait, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1882.
FOX, Sir Charles (youngest son of Francis Fox of Derby, physician). b. Derby 11 March 1810; assistant engineer on London and Birmingham railway 1830–35; a civil and consulting engineer in London 1857 to death; introduced the switch into railway practice 1838; erected with John Henderson the building for Great Exhibition in Hyde Park 1850–1; erected Crystal Palace, Sydenham 1852–54; carried out the East Kent and other railways; erected bridges over Thames at Barnes, Richmond, and Staines and many other large bridges; M.I.C.E. 13 Jany. 1838; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Oct. 1851. d. Blackheath, Kent 14 June 1874. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 264–6 (1875); Graphic ix, 15, 17 (1874), portrait; Practical Mag. vi, 129–33, portrait.
FOX, Charles (7 son of Robert Were Fox of Falmouth). b. Falmouth 22 Dec. 1797; partner in firm of G. C. and R. W. Fox and Co. merchants, Falmouth; partner in Perran foundry co., manager 1824–47; one of founders of royal Cornwall polytechnic soc. 1833, pres. 1871–72; with Sir Charles Lemon introduced man engines into Cornish mines 1842; pres. of Miners’ Association of Cornwall and Devon 1861–63; pres. of royal geological soc. of Cornwall 1864–67. d. Trebah near Falmouth 18 April 1878. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 160–61, 1186; Joseph Foster’s Descendants of Francis Fox (1872) 11.